Word: sporn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerhouse behind AGE's expansion is Austrian-born President Philip Sporn, 59, a scholarly, hard-driving executive who started his utilities career as a lamplighter while still in high school in Manhattan. After graduating from Columbia University's school of engineering, Sporn went to work for AGE in 1920, served as the company's chief engineer for 14 years before he became president in 1947. A music and art lover with an engineer's eye for form (he patterned AGE's transmission towers after the Eiffel Tower), Sporn likes to punctuate his conversation with frequent...
...Project, Achieve, Project." Since the next revolutionary change in power plants may come from the atom, Sporn has boned up on the problem, is one of the top U.S. authorities on industrial uses of atomic energy. He went to Geneva as a member of the U.S. delegation to the atoms-for-peace conference last summer, is president of Nuclear Power Group, Inc., a utility-backed atomic research organization that is contributing $15 million in research and development to Commonwealth Edison's 180,000-kw. reactor outside Chicago. Says he: "The power industry is in a terrifically dynamic phase...
Since AGE is in the coal-rich heart of the U.S., Sporn is confident that atomic power will not be economically competitive to his company for at least 20 years. Nevertheless, he insists that the company must constantly "project, achieve, then project further." Sporn's own projection is that AGE's present capacity would be doubled by 1965, quadrupled...
ELECTRIC power output, which recently hit a weekly record of 9,000,000,000 kwh, will soar 160% in the next 14 years, predicts Philip Sporn, president of American Gas & Electric Co. By 1968, the U.S. will be using power at the rate of 1,138,000,000,000 kw-h a year...
...Chairman Donald Cook, who spent ten years in the commission's public utilities division, last week became assistant to Utilityman Philip Sporn of big American Gas & Electric, and a vice president in A.G. & E.'s engineering and service subsidiary...